Sentences with phrase «elections the party did»

In May's elections the party did particularly well in Blackpool, Chester and South Ribble, for example.

Not exact matches

To be sure, Trump's tone and overall demeanor does seem to have contributed a great deal to his success in the GOP primary — he is the party's presumptive nominee — though it remains to be seen if that success will carry over into a general election.

«And whatever we do as a majority frames the entire party going into the 2016 election.

Bottom line: while an ongoing recession at the time of the election does not always mean that the incumbent party will lose control of the White House, it spells DOOM by better than a 2:1 ratio.

Against this backdrop, analysts wonder how well populist parties will do in the elections.

Populist parties (most notably the Freedom Party and Elderly Party [50PLUS]-RRB- are expected to do well in the elections.»

Though his personal political views don't necessarily align with today's Democratic party, as the New York Times notes, he has been quite outspoken against Republican nominee Donald Trump throughout this election cycle.

Trump didn't follow the usual path of a successful presidential candidate, who plays to his party's base to win the nomination, then tacks to the center for the general election.

Despite seeing off Ben Wyatt's «challenge» for the top job, WA Labor leader Eric Ripper still has plenty to do if he wants to lead the party to the next election.

His name appeared more often in the pages of the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail and National Post during Ontario's recent election than the leader of the Green Party's did — and Don Drummond wasn't even doing interviews.

The subcommittee's chairman, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, said in his opening statement that «when one party is attacked, all of us should feel attacked... when a foreign power interferes in our election, it doesn't matter who they targeted.

Lopez Obrador's party, Morena, has dismissed the suggestion it has ideological or political sympathies for Venezuela's socialist government, but this year, opponents in Mexico have played up purported links between the two, as they did to him before the 2006 election.

But that moniker doesn't touch on what she's best known for: founding Iceland's radical Pirate Party, the collection of anarchists, libertarians, and techies that could gain control of the Nordic island's parliament in an election Saturday.

«This election gives them an opportunity, and we as the Democratic Party are going to do our best to try to capitalize on that.»

It's hard to tell how many do this — I know of a few politically engaged Liberals who periodically hold Tory membership cards too — but it's a fact of life for those of other political stripes in a one - party province like Alberta: the political direction of the province is decided at the PC leadership conventions, not in general elections.

Unlike Khan, who significantly outperformed the Labour party in his own constituency during the mayoral election, Goldsmith did only about as well as a generic Conservative candidate.

B.C.'s Liberal Party, like its opponents, received a number of corporate donations during the 2013 provincial election, but the companies making them often did not report those donations to shareholders.

While that may play well to some of the more extreme members of the Republican party in the primaries, political experts don't see such talk surviving in a general election campaign.

Party employees have led communication at key points of the investigations into whether the Trump campaign had anything to do with Russian interference in the presidential election.

Smith concedes that her party has plenty of organizational work to do before the next election, which could come as early as next year.

«Although recent history shows there is reason to be skeptical of political polls, we do not believe populist parties will score victories significant enough in national elections to cause an existential threat to the European Union (EU).»

So Kenney knows the drill, and had more or less telegraphed the NDP's first step, predicting that they would go negative because gosh what kind of governing party would stoop to doing that against a newly minted leader 18 months before the next general election.

«We have never turned away a political party because we didn't want to help them win an election.

That could do some damage to the president, and the Republican Party, before the midterm elections in states that turned out for Trump in 2016.

«I would suspect the «know your customer» they're doing on their ad purchasers is probably driven more by what information they need for internal business purposes and to best sell ads rather than to satisfy information requests from any third parties, such as the Federal Election Commission, the Department of Justice, etc..»

Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailWith B.C.'s election around the corner, what do the province's three major parties have planned for electric vehicles?

The NDP is not taking a banana to a knife fight — this coming election will see the Liberals with massiive millions while the NDP — which gets almost 80 % of its funding from individuals like myself — will also face a colourful party that will likely get full page ads from the Liberals supporting said colourful party as it did in the last provincial election!

The announcement came less than 24 hours after the B.C. election results were finalized, with the two parties holding a majority of the seats committing to do anything in their power to stop the proposal.

During the election campaign, Mr. Trudeau didn't shy away from acknowledging that his party's plans to invest in infrastructure would result in several years of deficit spending.

In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel's center - right Christian Democrat Union party comfortably won a small regional election, doing better than expected against its main rival, the Social Democrats, and providing a welcome boost for the German leader, ahead of national elections due in September.

The next leader of the NDP will need to work hard to ensure that progressive voters do not flock to one conservative party in order to block another conservative party from forming government during the next election.

He might be able to make a new Conservative Party out of the failures of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta and he might be able to get the folks who don't want to vote Wildrosie to vote for his party candidates at the next provincial elecParty out of the failures of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta and he might be able to get the folks who don't want to vote Wildrosie to vote for his party candidates at the next provincial elecParty of Alberta and he might be able to get the folks who don't want to vote Wildrosie to vote for his party candidates at the next provincial elecparty candidates at the next provincial election.

If he does not seek his party's leadership, he could be a strong candidate in the next election.

If these opposition parties do not step up to the plate, Albertans can once again expect a Senator - in - Waiting election dominated by conservative politicians.

CALGARY - On her first visit to Calgary as New Democrat leader, Rachel Notley said that the city is a priority for the party and that New Democrats will build on the work done in these by - elections.

In the 1935 election, the party went from zero to fifty - six MLAs and did not even have a leader during the election campaign (William Aberhart was chosen as Premier on September 3, 1935).

On her first visit to Calgary as New Democrat leader, Rachel Notley said that the city is a priority for the party and that New Democrats will build on the work done in these by - elections.

Even if they do have almost identical policies and positions, it is not the responsibility of one party to help another elect candidates in an election.

This does not mean that there could not be one dominant conservative party to face the NDP in the next election, it just means that any sort of actual merger of parties is unlikely to happen.

Argument # 1: The non-conservative opposition parties do not have the resources to run a candidate in the Senate election.

Although Mr. Dent did not win the by - election, the strong showing for the NDP foreshadowed that party's first federal electoral win in Alberta two year's later when Ross Harvey was elected in Edmonton - East.

Nouriel Roubini likes India's new central bank governor, and said the following about the elections and the Bharatiya Janata Party's Narendra Modi: «If he wins and starts doing the right thing, we could actually have a surprise policywise and even a significant rally in India in equities.»

And the province can do much more to clean up provincial election laws, something that a new all - party committee will be tasked to do soon (and they should consider adopting some of the amendments made by Wildrose MLAs during recent debates in the Legislature).

But that would require a fundamental change to the Elections Act — eliminating the requirement of a party leader's endorsement to run as a party's candidate, then fashioning a more coherent rule — and a change in the ways our political parties do business.

If we do see an episode of helicopter money dropped before the election, any positive effects are likely to be short lived (which may be the intent, to postpone the pain till after the election to keep the current party in power).

In France, for example, Marine Le Pen's anti-euro, far - right National Front party gained a respectable 26 % of the vote in last month's local elections, but it didn't emerge as the top party as had been predicted.

President Trump is privately rejecting the growing consensus among Republican leaders that they may lose the House and possibly the Senate in November, leaving party officials and the president's advisers nervous that he does not grasp the gravity of the threat they face in the midterm elections.

The candidate of the conservative party has a chance only if this election is waged as a campaign to enact Republican measures — measures he did not shape and can not explain.

It's hard to imagine how so many people don't understand that by the nature of our representation and elections we have a two party system which only legislation is likely to change.

Though he didn't mention any single feature or incident by name, his platform has faced criticism in recent weeks after it was discovered that Russian parties used Facebook to try to influence the election.